Venezuela The US-Canada Condemns About The Raid Of The Mexican Embassy In Ecuador

Quito, Ecuador/ILLUSTRATION OF UNSPLASH/Kiyoshi

JAKARTA - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil denounced the silence of' the United States and Canada over the raid on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador by local police as "embarrifying, but not surprising."

Earlier, on Friday night (5/4) until Saturday a(6/4), Ecuadorian police stormed into the Mexican Embassy complex in Quito using armed vehicles to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had long taken refuge there, according to media reports.

Following the incident, Mexico City cut diplomatic relations with Quito.

"The secret of the US and Canadian governments regarding the kidnapping of Jorge Glas and the violation of Mexican sovereignty by the Government of Ecuador is a disgraceful act, but not a surprising act," Gil wrote in a post on platform X.

In the upload, Gil stated that silencing was not a surprising act because the two countries were accustomed to using international law to attack sovereign countries.

But the US and Canada remain silent in the presence of the barbaric act that is clearly being carried out by a number of "our devices".

Latin America will find a way to "recover justice", he added.

On Saturday, April 6, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called Ecuador's actions a barbaric act.

Glas previously served five years in prison for bribery and criminal conspiracy before being released at the end of 2022.

However, in December 2023, he was sentenced to six more years in prison in a corruption case involving Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, currently known as Novonor.

Glas took refuge at the Mexican Embassy in the same month, before his official arrest warrant was issued. On April 5, 2024, Mexico decided to give Glas political asylum.

Ecuador called Mexico's decision illegal and demanded the politician's extradition.